I love to kick off the new trading week by looking at a few companies that have just raiseed their dividends. A company that's easing up on its pocketbook probably has improving fundamentals to back up that generosity. Readers of the Income Investor newsletter service can certainly appreciate that kind of thinking.
Let's take a closer peek at four of the companies that inched their payouts higher over the past week.
Let's start with Sara Lee
Utah Medical Products
Sure, the maker of disposable and reusable medical devices may not offer the same earnings growth octane as sexier health-care darlings such as Intuitive Surgical
Questar
Finally, we have Vectren
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